The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. And he detests the color yellow. This improbable story of Christopher’s quest to investigate the suspicious death of a neighborhood dog makes for one of the most captivating, unusual, and widely heralded novels in recent years.
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screaming crying throwing up!!!!
this book was written so well.
I recommend this to anyone.
0Listened to the whole book in one work day on audio. While I'm glad I was able to do this and not have to put the book down (it was very enjoyable), I also think this may be a book to re-read in the future, and perhaps read the paper copy. The narrator was very good, and I liked the voice of the main character Christopher, but there were occasional passages of Christopher's thoughts on random sort of "big" topics that I found poignant and would like to re-visit and think about.
This was a very interesting look at life from the view of one with Asperger's/autism. The behavioral traits shown are certainly in line with this, though it may be impossible to actually be in the mind of someone with autism and convey this in text. I think this portrayal of Christopher's struggles is a good snapshot--I think Haddon was able to very effectively show how Christopher's parents lived/dealt with him on a day to day basis.
I'm not sure how I feel overall. I liked Christopher and I don't think I had any pity for him, which I wondered if I would going into it.
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